A letter from a reader.  I thought you'd all appreciate it.

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   Subject: Thank you (please do not publish this email on your website) 
      Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:38:15 -0500                              
      From: James F Smith                                                
        To: letters@stratfor.com <letters@stratfor.com>                  

   Dear Mr. Friedman and Stratfor Team,

    

   My background is CIA and our company is comprised of former DOD, CIA and
   former law enforcement personnel. We provide services for those same
   groups in the form of training, security and information collection.

    

   As such, I am routinely asked to make guest appearance on various national
   / international television and radio programs to discuss issues of
   national security, intelligence, counter-terrorism and related matters.

    

   My intent is to thank you for your organization's excellent service of
   intelligence reporting and analysis. Outstanding just doesn't cut it -
   professionally competent, salient, germane, concise are all descriptors
   that describe your organization's work product. I routinely refer to your
   site prior to on-camera appearances to do a sanity-check on my talking
   points.

    

   Keep up the great work ladies and gentlemen. You're doing a great service
   to your subscribers.

    

   Respectfully,

    

   Jamie

    

   (as I requested above, please do not reprint or publish this email - thank
   you.)

    

    

   Jamie Smith

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